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The man was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company of others, assaulting an officer in the execution of duty, and resisting officer in the execution of duty.

He was granted conditional bail to appear at Sutherland Local Court on August 7. The investigation is ongoing.

A witness to the brawl told 9NEWS the fight started when people attached to the cafe blocked the entrance to the meeting.

Witnesses said phones were destroyed by people at the meeting. Picture: 9NEWS (9NEWS)

“There was an altercation when some members … some people who are affiliated with the owner of the shop, were basically intimidating and swearing at the other who belong to the branch and were invited to the meeting,” the witness said.

“One of the older ladies stood up and said ‘don’t push me, don’t swear at me’ and they were getting abusive at her and other gentleman tried to stop them abusing her, and they ganged up on him and took him outside."

There have also been claims that witnesses to the alleged incident who attempted to film the altercation on their mobile phones, then had those devices smashed by people involved.

The witness said that the café was filled with people for the meeting before they allegedly refused entry to some women and a scuffle broke out that resulted in religious slurs.

A man has been charged over the fight to face court in August. Picture: 9NEWS (9news)

He also said that the meeting was being held to endorse members of a neighbouring Liberal Party branch to join the Bayside local government conference and the altercation occurred because people were opposed to the move.

"You hear they're starting to say, 'you Christians go back home, don’t you know you're in Arncliffe? This is Muslim town, we own this place,'," he said.

"This to me is an obvious statement of aggression. Not only are they trying to put people in our branches to stack it, to have the numbers, to be able to go into council or state or Federal, but it's now turned religious - Muslims have targeted Christians in the area.

"It was a group of people who wanted it their way from the Arncliffe branch and that area who didn’t want us to enter or have a democratic right about what happens with the Liberal Party in this area."

9NEWS understands the arranged meeting at the café may have been attended by opposing factional rank-and-file members of the NSW Liberal Party, however a Party spokesman was unable to confirm this.